Summary of Unit A brief snapshot, as if someone asked you to briefly and clearly describe the intent of the lesson or project.
During first and second quarter in 3rd grade, students explore different genres of literature, including biographies. The overall assignment in the past has been for each student to choose a person and complete a Biography Book Report. One component of the report is for the students to come to school dressed as their selected person and give a speech to the class in first person. During computers, they also create a newsletter related to their person in Microsoft Word. The addition to this project will be to create a digital timeline in iMovie using still images and voice over. The students will need to also identify the most important contribution that their person made to our life today and end their timeline referring back to the contribution. The unit will end with students sharing their timelines for the class and discussing the major contributions and impacts that their people made to our lives today.
Essential Questions What will guide student inquiry?
How have people in the past contributed to our lives today?
What qualifies an event in a person’s past to be considered significant?
How can you create a timeline that shows significant events in a digital way?
Academic Standards Include technology. Use district standards where applicable, targeting performance objectives you will assess.
Reading
1.6.3: Ask relevant questions in order to comprehend text
1.6.4: Answer clarifying questions in order to comprehend text.
1.6.6: Connect information and events in text to experiences and related text and sources.
2.1.4: Formulate relevant connections (e.g., relationships, cause/effect, comparisons) between earlier events and later events in text.
2.1.3: Sequence a series of events in a literary selection.
Social Studies
2.1.1: Create timelines to show the sequence of historical data.
1.1.3: Analyze primary source materials to study people and events from the past.
1.1.4: Retell stories to describe past events, people and places.
1.10.2: Discuss connections between current events, and historical events, and issues, using content previously studied.
1.1.1: Construct timelines to identify time sequence of historical data.
Objectives What will students learn and do?
As a result of what I learn today, I will be able to…
•Analyze and choose still images from the internet that represent significant events in a person’s life.
•Create a digital timeline that links significant events in a person’s life to how they contributed to our life today using iMovie.
•Infer how a person has effected my life today by watching digital timelines.
Assessment Checklist, Presentation, Oral Response, Rubric, Test, Quiz, etc.
Project Overview
Title: Digital Timelines
Grade Level: 3rd Grade
Subject Area: Reading and Social Studies
Time Frame (when, duration): 1st and 2nd Quarter
Description
Summer: Complete the first four sections
Workshops: Complete the entire proposal or modify to your district and/or school's guidelines
Arizona Content Standards may be found at:
http://www.ade.state.az.us/standards/contentstandards.asp
Language from Bloom's Taxonomy for describing student outcomes may be found at:
http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm
A brief snapshot, as if
someone asked you to
briefly and clearly
describe the intent of the
lesson or project.
What will guide student
inquiry?
What qualifies an event in a person’s past to be considered significant?
How can you create a timeline that shows significant events in a digital way?
Include technology.
Use district standards
where applicable,
targeting performance
objectives you will
assess.
1.6.3: Ask relevant questions in order to comprehend text
1.6.4: Answer clarifying questions in order to comprehend text.
1.6.6: Connect information and events in text to experiences and related text and sources.
2.1.4: Formulate relevant connections (e.g., relationships, cause/effect, comparisons) between earlier events and later events in text.
2.1.3: Sequence a series of events in a literary selection.
Social Studies
2.1.1: Create timelines to show the sequence of historical data.
1.1.3: Analyze primary source materials to study people and events from the past.
1.1.4: Retell stories to describe past events, people and places.
1.10.2: Discuss connections between current events, and historical events, and issues, using content previously studied.
1.1.1: Construct timelines to identify time sequence of historical data.
What will students learn
and do?
•Analyze and choose still images from the internet that represent significant events in a person’s life.
•Create a digital timeline that links significant events in a person’s life to how they contributed to our life today using iMovie.
•Infer how a person has effected my life today by watching digital timelines.
Checklist, Presentation,
Oral Response, Rubric,
Test, Quiz, etc.
(e.g., content,
technology, etc.)
- Steps in the process
- Responsibilities
- Guiding
- Questions
- Student products
- Computers
- Software
- URLs
- ameras
- Presentation Device
- Handouts, Books
- Supplies, Other
- Location
- Teacher / Student roles
- Group Dynamics
- Interactions with experts,
other educators, etc.,
if applicable
"I do, we do, you do"
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